Learn about the RS Leadership throughout the years, starting from our most recent president, Hank Bernstein, to our earliest, Abraham Gumpert. 

Click the name of the president to read their bio. 

Henry B. Bernstein
2020-2023

Michael Hauptman
2017-2020

Lloyd Brotman
2014-2017

Dena Herrin
2011-2014

Fred Strober
2008-2011

Susan Kline Klehr
2005-2008

Richard Berkman
2002-2004

Thomas Perloff
1998-2002
2004-2005

Richard Schmeltzer
1995-1998

Alvin P. Gutman
1992-1995

Muriel Beissinger
1989-1992

Edward L. Snitzer
1986-1989

David J. Kaufman
1983-1986

Ivan H. Gabel
1980-1983

Harold Rosenbluth
1976-1980

Robert P. Frankel
1973-1976

Samuel H. Levy
1970-1973

Earl Perloff
1967-1970

Donald Bean
1963-1967

Edward Rosewater
1959-1963

Reynold Greenberg
1954-1959

Albert Lieberman
1951-1954

Philip Sterling
1941-1946

Harry Nusbaum
1935-1941

Lionel Friedmann
1930-1935

Albert Wolf
1912-1923

Emil Selig
1904-1912

Benjamin F. Teller
1896-1904

David Teller
1879-1896

Elias Wolf
1871-1877

Presidents Not Pictured:
Levi Mayer (1877-1879)
Joseph Einstein (1852-1871)
Samuel Adler (1848-1852)
Simon Elfeld (1845-1848)
Mayer Shoyer (1839-1841; 1844-1845)
Moses Abraham (1837-1848)
Herman Van Beil (1831-1837)
Louis Bomeisler (1827-1831; 1841-1844)
Wolf Benjamin (1823-1827)
Isaac Stuttgart (1821-1823)
Lewis Allen (1811-1817; 1818-1821)
Hyman Marks (1811)
Abraham Gumpert (1810-1811; 1817-1818)